Game Description: Borderlands is a sprawling sci-fi action/role-playing game set in the deep recesses of space, featuring randomized terrain, enemies, and weapon permutations numbering in the hundreds of thousands. There are four playable characters each with their own special abilities and attributes, and lengthy quest chains that yield experience and new loot.

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The critical acclaim for Borderlands has translated into commercial success, as well. Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of Borderlands publisher 2K Games, announced on a financial call this afternoon that Borderlands has sold more than two million copies worldwide.
"[Borderlands] has established itself as a key franchise for...

It turned out to be quite the interesting year, didn't it? Even though a batch of games got pushed back to next year, 2009 still had a pretty impressive roster of titles. The obvious ones we've already covered, but we wanted to break down our favorites from the year on a more personal level. All this week we'll be featuring G4tv.com and X-Play...

It turned out to be quite the interesting year, didn't it? Even though a batch of games got pushed back to next year, 2009 still had a pretty impressive roster of titles. The obvious ones we've already covered, but we wanted to break down our favorites from the year on a more personal level. All this week we'll be featuring G4tv.com and X-Play...

It turned out to be quite the interesting year, didn't it? Even though a batch of games got pushed back to next year, 2009 still had a pretty impressive roster of titles. The obvious ones we've already covered, but we wanted to break down our favorites from the year on a more personal level. All this week we'll be featuring G4tv.com and X-Play...

Borderlands fans will be getting a belated [insert holiday of choice] present this/next year from Gearbox Software in the form of a second round of downloadable content for their stylish shooter Borderlands.
The "Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot" DLC is single player/co-op focused, adds three new, horde-like Riot Mode arenas, and...

It's that time of year. All the major games media outlets are posting their lists of nominees for many different categories of awards, most importantly Game of the Year. G4 is no different, and Adam has taken the time out of his busy schedule to use this week's Soapbox to explain how our editorial staff determined which games made the cut.
So...

It might be called Borderworlds, it might not, but there should be no doubt that Take-Two Interactive is interested in partnering with Gearbox Software on a sequel to Borderlands.
Take-Two said Borderlands was on the cusp of becoming a powerful franchise for the publisher on their last financial call and Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick...

At any point while playing Borderlands have you thought to yourself, “You know, this Borderlands place isn’t nearly big enough to accommodate all of my open-world needs. I wish the game world were significantly larger and filled with much more post-apocalyptic role-playing shooting madness”?
Probably not, but the folks over...

Gearbox Software has speculated about the future of Borderlands and Take-Two Interactive is, too. On a conference call discussing an adjusted financial outlook the company today, Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick stressed how happy the company is with the performance of Borderlands.
"[Borderlands is showing] every sign of becoming an...

No, Borderlands 2 hasn't been confirmed yet. The surprise success of Gearbox Software's first-person action RPG -- based on word-of-mouth, anyway, as official numbers aren't in until later this month -- prompted someone to finally ask the developer, "hey, what about Borderlands 2?" You can guess what an excited creative director might...

If you've already pushed through the content on the Borderlands disc, 2K Games and Gearbox Software are happy to provide you with more...for a nominal fee, of course. The very-cool-looking first slate of downloadable content, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned (complete with zombie hordes), will be released on November 24 through both Xbox Live and...

Gearbox Software's Borderlands may have gamers buzzing, but it didn't come out of the gate in perfect condition. There are bugs and glitches needing addressing. The first attempt to make things right came early this morning for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, as Gearbox rolled out a patch that addresses some issues specific to each...

True story: I was prepping this post for this week's episode of Feedback, when I realized that Brian was about to describe what was contained in the leaked Modern Warfare 2 footage this week. I stopped the video player just in time, then decided to get a soda. Came back to my desk, and without thinking I hit "play" and boom: spoiled. I...

(Super sweet fire-breathing weapon not featured above. Just fire. And guns.)
I'm early yet into my adventures into Borderlands, but I can already foresee one problem that's going to become more and more difficult as cooler and cooler weapons fall into my hands.
When I polished off the first major boss in Borderlands, he dropped a fast-shooting...